Seiple v. Mitchell

FOSTER, Justice.

This is an appeal by the receiver from a decree of the court on his application to-fix the amount of his compensation, in which the court fixed an amount unsatisfactory to him.

There being no statute which controls this question, nor which furnishes a guide for doing so, it is primarily within the sound discretion of the court having the custody and control of the receivership, having regard to all the relevant circumstances. And, in reviewing an exercise of that discretion on appeal, this Court will have much respect for the judgment of that court. There must appear to be an…